Scrum Master, Sr. jobs in New York, NY

We are looking to hire Sr. Project Manager / Scrum Master (Timeseries) at New York City, NY

Job Description:

• As part of the Risk Technology department, the Scrum Master/PM will take part as a facilitator for technology teams, and a project manager for Market Risk IT initiatives.

Main Responsibilities

Agile Leadership:

• Serve as the Scrum Master for one or more agile teams, ensuring agile practices are followed and understood.
• Facilitate Scrum ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and sprint reviews.
• Assist in tracking and removing impediments, fostering an environment for high team performance and continuous improvement.

Project Management:

• Assist with the planning, tracking, documentation, and status updates for the ongoing projects.
• Collaborate with other project managers to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.

Requirement Analysis:

• Elicit and analyze business requirements from internal stakeholders regarding financial time series data management and analysis.
• Translate business needs into detailed functional and technical specifications.
• Act as a bridge between technical and non-technical teams, ensuring clear communication and understanding of project progress, design decisions, and Agile practices

Solution Design:

• Work closely with Risk Engineering and development teams to design solutions that meet business needs and leverage time series data effectively.
• Define and validate the user stories and acceptance criteria for the solution.

Required Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience in IT with more than 5 years in financial projects (preferably in the area of Market Risk)
• Good understanding of financial instruments and yield curves.
• Expertise in writing user stories with good acceptance criteria in Jira
• Good understanding of ETL and Data warehouse concepts with some hands on experience with data analysis
• Experience with managing Jira boards, Service Now dashboards, Confluence pages, Excel reporting, and creating and tracking KPIs
• Functional expertise in financial time series management
• Good communication and presentation skills

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Power BI and SQL
• Experience with any vendor time series management products
• Hands-on experience with data analysis using SQL and command line tools

Education:

• Bachelor s degree in Finance, Management, or Engineering

We can offer you:

• A highly competitive compensation and benefits package
• A multinational organization with 48 offices in 19 countries and the possibility to work abroad
• Laptop and a mobile phone
• 10 days of paid annual leave (plus sick leave and national holidays)
• Maternity & Paternity leave plans
• A comprehensive insurance plan including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-/short-term disability (plans vary by region)
• Retirement savings plans
• A higher education certification policy
• Commuter benefits (varies by region)
• Extensive training opportunities, focused on skills, substantive knowledge, and personal development
• On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses
• Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups
• Cutting edge projects at the world s leading tier-one banks, financial institutions and insurance firms
• A flat and approachable organization
• A truly diverse, fun-loving and global work culture

SYNECHRON S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative Same Difference is committed to fostering an inclusive culture promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.